High-quality, organic ingredients are the foundation of our vegetarian meals. Our unrefined ingredients are grown with best practices for the best results. 

A whole food plant-based diet is an excellent way to achieve your health, fitness, and weight loss goals. Eating whole vegetables, fruits, tubers, whole grains, and legumes and eliminating high-fat animal products, processed ingredients, and refined flour and sugar can provide optimal nutrition. And may help reduce risk factors associated with heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, such as high cholesterol and obesity. Many top athletes depend on a whole food plant-based diet and are proving you don't need meat to build muscle.

Powerful complete proteins are found in so much more than meat and we’re always searching for the best. Options include favorites like tofu, nutritional yeast, lentils, and black beans as well as modern plant-based alternatives like Beyond Meats®, Daring Chicken®, and Impossible®. Just like with our vegan meal plan, our chefs are driven to create plant-powered meals that are sure to satisfy your appetite and your macro goals.

A vegetarian diet eliminates all animal meat. While vegetarians can still enjoy animal byproducts like eggs, cheese, and yogurt, vegetarian diets exclude all meat, relying on vitamin-rich, high protein vegetables, fruits, grains, legumes, tubers, nuts, seeds, and plant-based meat alternatives.

There are two primary kinds of vegetarians.

• Lacto-ovo vegetarians: avoid meat and seafood but still eat many dairy and egg products like whole eggs, cream, milk, and cottage cheese.
• Ovo vegetarians: avoid all meat, seafood, and dairy, but still eat eggs.
• Lacto vegetarians: avoid meat, seafood, and eggs, but still enjoy dairy products like cheese, milk, and yogurt.

Our vegetarian meal plans are gluten and dairy-free but we do not discourage you from including either in your own vegetarian diet.

We’ll get your macros dialed. How else you approach vegetarianism is up to you!

From a dietary standpoint, a vegetarian diet eliminates all animal meat. A vegan diet eliminates animal products entirely--meat, dairy, eggs, even honey.

Ethically, both vegetarians and vegans prioritize animal welfare with vegetarians not eating things that take the life of an animal and vegans not eating animal products at all. 

Environmentally, while most agricultural emissions are due to the production of meat, grazing animals raised for dairy do contribute to greenhouse gasses making the vegan diet somewhat more environmentally friendly.

Learn more about how vegetarianism and veganism compare here. 

Vegetarian meal plans are associated with weight loss, heart health, and improved blood sugar control and blood cholesterol.

How a vegetarian diet affects one's body though is based on the nature of the individual's diet.

In general, a nutrient-rich diet consisting of fresh produce will encourage good health and many find a vegetarian diet helps them prioritize eating well. But eliminating meat from your diet alone will not promise weight loss, improved health or better fitness.

Plants, especially fruits and veggies, tend to be some of the most nutrient-dense foods we know of but lots of junk food is vegetarian too.

Eating the appropriate macro and micronutrients for your body and goals is still up to the individual regardless of the diet. 

Protein is a macronutrient - in other words, a compound in food that provides calories and other nutritional benefits.

All proteins are made up of smaller, important compounds called amino acids that serve as the building blocks for your body.

Plant-based proteins are proteins found in plants, the original source of all proteins. It is important to build a plant-based diet around plants high in protein but also either complete or complementary proteins. 

Learn more about how much protein you need here. 

Worldwide, livestock accounts for more than 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, much of it the responsibility of the meat industry. Deforestation compounds the impact as carbon-absorbing trees are cleared to create grazing land for the livestock.

By limiting animal products from your diet, you help stop the acceleration of land loss and emissions by lowering the demand for these valuable products.

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